--- title: Free Software for Digital Photo Editing | daily.dev description: Free software for digital photo editing with intuitive user interface, layers, special effects, and community support. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Free Software for Digital Photo Editing | daily.dev og:description: Free software for digital photo editing with intuitive user interface, layers, special effects, and community support. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/t6oPvveY0.png og:image:alt: Free Software for Digital Photo Editing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Free Software for Digital Photo Editing **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 8 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Free software for digital photo editing with intuitive user interface, layers, special effects, and community support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@etsi0** · 3 upvotes > i personally prefer [photopea](https://www.photopea.com/) --- Tags: [#image-editing](https://daily.dev/tags/image-editing), [#photo-editing](https://daily.dev/tags/photo-editing), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Free Software for Digital Photo Editing","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0"},"datePublished":"2024-03-30T16:09:40.784Z","dateModified":"2025-09-06T02:35:02.113Z","description":"Free software for digital photo editing with intuitive user interface, layers, special effects, and community support.","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/65d0208ea0abb987f9cc542c07b9c4b0?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/65d0208ea0abb987f9cc542c07b9c4b0?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":8},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"image-editing,photo-editing,windows","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Free Software for Digital Photo Editing"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"i personally prefer photopea","datePublished":"2024-04-01T11:34:06.541Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/t6oPvveY0#c-8fqG9GwJW","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Albin Karlsson","url":"https://daily.dev/etsi0","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OPeS_Pp9--/f_auto/v1709408456/avatars/avatar_dl9aKBVJcq2rhqlmlU6DN"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}}]} ```